Advanced Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for OCD
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Overview
How can you provide effective and lasting relief for clients who feel defeated in their battle against OCD? Discover groundbreaking strategies for giving your OCD clients the courage and self-help skills needed to get their lives back.
Clients with OCD have an intentional bias towards threat, ever scanning their bodies and outside world for signs and signals of threat, uncertainty and danger; living diminished lives. They cleave to their irrational beliefs and paralyzing rituals for warding off anxiety, leaving even the most experienced therapist frustrated. Learn how to help clients overcome OCD by embracing their uncertainty and anxiety rather than attempting to ritualize it away. Equip them with strategies to break repetitious patterns using exposure, pattern disruption, ritual modification and other brief cognitive behavioral interventions for OCD.
A leading authority in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorders known for his innovative, counterintuitive, and highly effective methods, Reid Wilson knows that these clients don’t spontaneously recover, and that medication has limited efficacy. From decades of experience, he will teach you to help shift their frame of reference from escaping uncertainty through ritual and obsession to embracing the discomfort of exposure — CBT’s gold standard approach with Wilson’s groundbreaking twist. By implementing small in-session cognitive experiments and integrating mastery-oriented homework assignments, Wilson will show you how to help clients access their courage, confront their fears, and live fully, free from the grip of OCD.
Live demonstrations of his approach with three challenging OCD clients, Wilson’s running voiceover commentaries, and pre- and post-session analyses with Psychotherapy.net’s founder Victor Yalom, offer added depth to increase your confidence and skill when working with these most challenging clients.
With This Course You’ll Learn…
- Why working above the content creates the shift in mindset your clients need
- How to diagnose OCD and recognize the differences between compulsions and harmless checking or cleaning
- Why reassurance and self-soothing don’t work and what clients should do instead
- Simple cognitive behavioral interventions to treat washers and cleaners, checkers, repeaters, hoarders, orderers, cognitive-ritualizers and more
- Progressive exposure exercises for tolerating increasing amounts of distress
- How to identify existing strengths clients can enlist in their battle with OCD
- Self-Help skills your clients can use to break their disruptive rituals and patterns
- How to create opportunities to collaborate and intervene when working with ambivalence
What’s Included
The Secret to Helping Clients Overcome OCD is Teaching Them to Embrace It.
Sounds crazy, right? But OCD expert Reid Wilson will teach you how to use brief, paradoxical cognitive behavioral interventions to equip your clients with tools to break free from the compulsive rituals and repetitious patterns that consume their lives.
Volume 1: Engaging the Ambivalent OCD Client
The ambivalent OCD client poses a unique challenge for clinicians. Kathleen’s “washer” and “checker” compulsions are consuming her life yet she cannot let them go. In two sessions, OCD expert Reid Wilson plants seeds that grow into a desire to change.
Wilson demonstrates and discusses:
- Clear protocols for exposure experiments
- Cognitive interventions to alleviate, rather than validate, the need for reassurance Techniques for confronting safety-seeking behaviors
- Tips on motivating clients to stay committed
- How to give clients the courage to do the hard work that is necessary
Volume 2: Treating the Severe OCD Client
Severe OCD can seem hopelessly intractable. Months of previous exposure-based therapy hasn’t given Bob much relief; he comes to Wilson claiming now his OCD is worse than ever. Consumed with “repeater” behavior that detracts from his life goals, Bob lacks tools to manage his anxiety, and lacks hope for change.
In two sessions, Wilson demonstrates:
- How to leverage client strengths
- Interventions to move toward the anxiety that drives compulsive cognitive-ritualizing behaviors
- A Framework for engaging with discomfort and fundamentally changing client circumstances.
Volume 3: Cognitive Therapy for Obsessions
When clients struggle with obsessional thinking patterns, many therapists aren’t sure how to help their clients free themselves from the torture of fearful thoughts. Rita is plagued with anxiety about her health. Trying to avoid anything that triggers her fears, Rita is missing out on living the active lifestyle she longs to live.
Wilson demonstrates and discusses:
- How to encourage clients to rise above the content of their obsessive thoughts
- Cognitive behavioral interventions for moving towards fears
- Experiential exercises for learning to tolerate uncertainty
- Tips for fostering courage and hope
About the Experts
Reid Wilson, PhD is a licensed psychologist who directs the Anxiety Disorders Treatment Center in Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina. He is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
Wilson specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders and is the author of Don’t Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks, Facing Panic: Self-Help for People with Panic Attacks, and is co-author with of Stop Obsessing! How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions. Wilson served on the Board of Directors of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America and was Program Chair of the National Conferences on Anxiety Disorders. In 2014 The Anxiety and Depression Association of America honored Wilson for a lifetime of service.
His free self-help website – www.anxieties.com – serves 500,000 visitors per year.
Learning Objectives
Learning Objectives:
In Volume 1: Engaging the Ambivalent OCD Client you’ll learn how to…
- Learn the core concepts of Wilson’s approach to treating the ambivalent OCD client.
- Understand how to conduct a highly focused assessment.
- Identify tools for helping clients increase their tolerance of uncertainty and discomfort.
In Volume 2: Treating the Severe OCD Client you’ll learn how to…
- Learn the core concepts of Wilson’s approach to treating the severe OCD client.
- Understand how to conduct a highly focused assessment.
- Identify tools for helping clients increase their tolerance of uncertainty and discomfort.
In Volume 3: Cognitive Therapy for Obsessions you’ll learn how to…
- Describe the core concepts of Wilson’s approach to treating anxiety disorders
- Explain how to conduct a highly focused assessment
- Rate tools for helping clients increase their tolerance of uncertainty and discomfort
Disclosures
General Disclosure
This Disclosure Statement has been designed to meet accreditation standards; Psychotherapy.net does its best to mitigate potential conflicts of interest and eliminate bias in all areas of content. Experts are compensated for their contributions to our training videos; while some of them have published works, the purchase of additional materials are not required for any Psychotherapy.net training. Each experts’ specific disclosures can be found in their biography.
Psychotherapy.net offers trainings for cost but has no financial or other relationships to disclose.
Therapist Disclosure
Reid Wilson was compensated for his contribution to this course. None of his books or additional offerings are required for this course. Should such materials be referenced, it is only as additional resources.
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Additionally, there is no commercial support for this activity. None of the planners or any employee at Psychotherapy.net who has worked on this educational activity has relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies.
What you get in this course
Real Sessions
Over 8 hours of videos featuring OCD expert Reid Wilson conducting clinical sessions with real clients
Therapist Commentary
Behind-the-scenes commentary to clearly explain the hows and whys of his paradoxical cognitive behavioral approach
Continuing Education
8.25 CE credits available
Bonus Resources
Supplemental skill building activities to practice the core skills demonstrated in the videos
Anywhere, Anytime Access
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“An excellent tool for both new and experienced therapists. Wilson skillfully leads the clinician step-by-step through his unique approach to OCD, an invaluable alternative to traditional ERP treatment. He introduces clear, insightful approaches to helping clients externalize their OCD-related thoughts and accept distress and uncertainty. I highly recommended it to anyone supporting clients with OCD.”
“Dr. Wilson does a masterful job working creatively with a clients suffering from persistent, treatment-resistant OCD. By adapting a cognitive approach to each client’s unique strengths and attitudes, Dr. Wilson helps them to develop an aggressive, paradoxical stance against OCD, which proves to be remarkably effective in only a few sessions. A beautiful demonstration of how tailoring treatments to the individual client can make all the difference.”
“There is nothing more satisfying than watching a master use his skills, and Dr. Wilson does that wonderfully here. Listening to Dr. Wilson give the reasons why he has made the choices he has made allows for the viewer to get an insight on how to manage challenging clients and still get results in just a few sessions. This course is a must for anyone wanting to work with OCD clients.”
“A unique opportunity to look behind the scenes at how one of the pioneers in the field of OCD treatment does therapy. You’ll understand the principles behind the choices Wilson makes as he pushes clients to relate to their inner experience with an entirely different attitude. A breakthrough in anxiety treatment!”
